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原文传递 Action Taken and Needed in Implementing Mandates and Recommendations Regarding Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety.

题名：	Action Taken and Needed in Implementing Mandates and Recommendations Regarding Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety.
作者：	Mead-K.M.
关键词：	Hazardous-materials-safety; Pipeline-safety.;Congressional-mandates; NTSB-safety-recommendations; Implementation-; Action-taken.
摘要：	To address most congressional mandates and NTSB safety recommendations, the Department and its Operating Administrations issue rules, complete studies, or do both. Since 1999, the Department has made significant progress in issuing rules, especially old rules and congressionally mandated rules with deadlines. The Department completed 39 percent more rulemakings in 2004 than it did in 1999. As we previously reported, the principal reason for that progress has been the priority given to rulemaking by the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Chief of Staff, and General Counsel. Congressional interest has also placed emphasis on rulemaking, and several OIG audit reports have identified ways to improve the rulemaking process, such as implementing a Department-wide rulemaking tracking and monitoring system to identify problems occurring both Department-wide and at the individual Operating Administrations. Also, in our June 2004 testimony on pipeline safety before the House Subcommittee on Highways, Transit and Pipelines, we reported that the Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS), which is part of PHMSA (formerly the Research and Special Programs Administration), has made considerable progress in closing out mandates from legislation enacted in 1992, 1996, and 2002 and in closing out NTSB recommendations, some of which had been open since the early 1990s. This progress was the direct result of a high level of management attention and priority in the past few years to complete the mandates and recommendations.
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